News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01
charge of forging his (TaYlor'sl father S

charge of forging his (Taylor's) fathers
name to note for $40. The charge
was not sustaineGlAand Taylor sued San
ders for $4,000 manages. Then San
ders went to the County Judge and
confessed that in order to harm Taylor
he himself had forged the note and
tr1ed to imprison him; and now his con-
science gave him no rest. He was
bound over to answer the charge of for
gerry, and settled with Taylor for $500.
A HAT-DEALER in Augusta, Me-,
played wicked joke on young and re-
cently-married man to whom he sold a
hat. He kept the hat few hours in
order to fit it, and meantime got a
young woman to write this note: "Dear-
est: L could not meet you as agreed
yesterday but will be there surely to-
morrow at 2. Put this in your hat so as
to be sure of the hour, Birdie" This
note he tucked under the hat band,
where 1t was found by the young mans
bride, to whom the young husband has
since been making explanations.
AT the Comstock silver mines in Vir-
glnia City mining science has reached
Its highest point, according to San
francisco newspaper, which says that
there they carry water down vertical
shaft to the depth of ZOO feet, and then
gear 1t back to the surface, running the
gigantic mills by the 1,700-foot press
ure. When the plan was suggested to
engineers of Europe they laughed at it;
but now it's proved success, and fur
nlshes a power UNNECESSARILY greater
and cheaper than anything hitherto ap-
piled In mining?
HERE'S q free advertisement for Miss
Martha Cosgrove, of Chicago, and she
deserves 1t. She found it hard work to
make living with the needle in the
usual way, so she has opened a mend
ing establishment where she sews on
buttons for 10 cents dozen, darns
stockings at 10 cents pair, and does
mending at the ss.Sse low rates. She fur
nlshes material for darning and mend
ing and farms out the work, claiming
one-half of the price paid.
A MAN well known in st. Louis has,
the doctors say, heart forced to the
right side and greatly displaced, and the
liver to the left. The lungs are COM
pressed and the stomach badly crowded,
but the ribs and sternum being firmly
set, the position is permanent. He has
been SO since boyhood, and with the ex-
ception of his irregular form, is per-
fectly healthy man. Consumption or
pneumonia would be sure death they
say.
JOHN OWEN SNYDER, the walking
freak, has given up appearing in mu-
seums, and is back at his humble home
near Hartford City, Ind. He is wearing
out under the tremendous strain caused
by his curious disease, and can't live
long. He must walk; but his steps are
feeble. His disease has been blessing
to his family, for he has made enough
money from museums to support his
family in comfort.
JIMMY CONWAY, small London boy,
slowed himself on the steamship Bor-
derer and SO got to Boston. He arrived
there on Friday and on Tuesday was
found curled up in q ferry house. He
said something was the matter with his
throat; that he hadn't eaten anything
since Friday, and then he tainted dead
away. He was taken to the city hospi-
tai, where he lies dangerously i'll with
THERE is in an interior Massachusetts
town, much frequented by health seek
ers, hotel whose landlord is something
of an autocrat, Judging by these sample
rules: "Do not ask servants to do any
thing you can do for yourself. Go
elsewhere if you are not suited here, as
there are others wanting your room.
Any disagreements beween guests will
be settled b. the request of both to
leave"
AN American who attended fifty bull
fights in Spain was asked the other day
why he went to so many. Gin the hope
that might see one of the bull fighters
killed." he answered. "The sport is so
brutal and cruel that I wanted to see
the men who are the cause of this bru-
bality receive just compensation for
their work"